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The Department of Energy (DOE) will fund key lab research as part of a cooperative research and development agreement between The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., and DOE's

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tenn., to increase adoption of cool roof technologies in the U.S. ORNL will partner with DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, Calif., to conduct the research, which will focus on developing new solar reflective technologies that would increase by more than 50 percent the energy savings cool roofs offer for new and existing commercial buildings.